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Battle Over Long-Awaited .Gay Internet Domain Can Continue

The fate of internet domain .gay is one step closer to
conclusion.

Dotgay LLC, whose bid to control the domain is on hold, may
finally find out whether it can operate the domain on behalf of the
international gay community or whether it must compete for it at an
auction.

The Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the domain name administrator, has been
reviewing—for more than a year—an internal process for determining whether applicants
that claim to represent a community should get “priority status” over other
applicants. That review has held up
dotgay’s application.

But the review is now complete, ICANN spokesman James Cole told
Bloomberg Law.

ICANN didn’t reveal when it will
move forward in the process for the domain.
But if dotgay wins the rights to .gay, the New York-based company can
sell domain name registrations to businesses and organizations that want to
market products and services to LGBT consumers.

ICANN
Dec. 13 published reports that found the panels conducting the “community
priority evaluation” process applied the evaluation criteria consistently
across applications. But some of the panels’ research didn’t include citations,
according to the reports.

Many domain applicants have
challenged the consistency of the community priority evaluation process, prompting ICANN to initiate a review. Dotgay has been
fighting against two such evaluations that denied it priority status. The evaluation panels held that “.gay” wasn’t
broad enough to cover the company’s defined community—which included
transgender people and allies.

The conclusion of the review
provides a glimmer of hope for dotgay and applicants of seven other domains
whose bids were also on pause—.music, .hotel, .llc, .inc, .llp, .cpa, and
.merck.

An attorney for dotgay didn’t
immediately comment on the reports’ findings.

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